Opens the tray: "Go Cong, 'Little Success.'" Handwritten on a pink/textured ground.
Aerial, shot from the helicopter — descending toward a town, fields and a road below.
Aerial farmland, scattered buildings.
A single-spire church, Gothic style, visible aerially over the town. Checked against known Gò Công churches — couldn't pin down the specific building, but confirmed something real: Gò Công was an actual French, then South Vietnamese, administrative province (1900–1976), matching his era exactly, not just a village name.
This is more specific than "an open clearing" — a real stadium, with a full grandstand of spectators watching a UH-1 helicopter land on the pitch. A French colonial-style building with a red tile roof stands behind the trees. "Army" markings are visible on the tail boom; the specific serial isn't cleanly legible.
An ornate tower with a Chinese-style dragon-decorated roof cap, sitting on a plain pillar behind a concrete wall — that wall is what the title refers to.
His own aircraft, close on the fuselage. The nose art is more detailed than a quick glance shows: a skeleton dressed as a gentleman — top hat, monocle, formal gloves, cane — with "WIMP'S" painted beside it and "Gent'" in cursive underneath. The clearest personal detail in this tray.
Aircraft landing gear — a wheel and strut assembly — sunk deep in thick mud. Matches the caption exactly.
Aerial over river and coastline — the first wave of the assault.
Aerial, a house set in farmland, likely "nestled in green."
Aerial over rice paddies.
Aerial over a village, ponds and huts visible.
An armed UH-1B gunship visible in flight below — air support for the operation.
Aerial over rice paddies — the landing zone for the assault.
Troops visible on the ground, moving through a flooded landing zone.
Two CH-21 Shawnees lifting off low over the field, people below — the lift aircraft departing right after drop-off.
More dynamic than a plain aerial — two CH-21s banking low and close over dark plowed fields, a thatched house visible below.
Aerial over flooded rice paddies.
The second wave, returning.
A single helicopter in the distance over darkening terrain — heading back.
Aerial, clouds over fields.
A real riverside town, two separate bridges crossing the water, fields on both banks — coming right after "Return" in the sequence, "Mortals Again" reads like a reflection on being back among ordinary life, not a spelling slip.
Aerial over waterways.
Aerial, a built-up compound near water.
Aerial over a larger industrial-looking area with structures and tanks — places this leg of the flight near Saigon.
Aerial, a walled compound amid fields — likely a family home with a burial plot, a common rural Vietnamese arrangement.
Grave structures are visible here — a domed tomb shape and smaller rectangular markers among the trees, with thatched houses scattered nearby.
Aerial over a built-up compound. His own question mark — possibly a former French administrative building, not confirmed.
uncertain — his own question mark in the title
Aerial, a dense riverine compound — likely district offices near a tributary.
A small earthen bunker along a fence line, a path leading to it, marshy fields and standing water beyond. Closes the tray.